The 5th POM Conference, Synthetic Sentience (July 2025 in Perth, Aiustralia) is open for abstract proposals. I would very much recommend our RAT research group's track 'The Materiality of Sentience' that is looking for submission to critically re-examine sentience, to foster deeper understanding of the relations in the more-than-human world. https://www.pomconference.org/
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The overall thematic of the POM-conference series is the question of how the machine and technology impact and contextualize artistic and cultural production and our perception of the world. Moreover, it is aiming at investigating the histories, theories and practices of machines and technologies in-between and beyond disciplines. It seeks to question the governing ideas in the sciences and the humanities through critical engagement with and empowerment of activities of creative production in the relational field of culture – technology – umwelt.